Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-06-05
an EX.VICE-PRGSEDENT DEAD.
Hon. William a. Wheeler Passes Quietly
Away

Hon. William a. Wheeler Passes Quietly
Away.
WATERFOWL, n. Y, June Hon.
William A. Wheeler died at his home in
Malone this morning.
lie remained in 9 comatose state duri L g
the night and passed peacefully away
without sign of recognition of those
about him.
William a. Wheeler, L L. d, was
/ born June so, 1919, in Malone, Franklin
county, New York, entered the Uni
yerslty of Vermont, in the class which
graduated in 1912, but the sudden death
of his father compelled him to leave his
! collegiate course uncompleted. He began
the stucy of law with Colonel Asa
! Hascall, and Was 1T different times en-
! ployed IS scaool teacher. Soon after
his admiss on to the bar he rose rapidly
in the legal profession, and was made
district attorney for Franklin county;
holding the position until he declined to
retain 1t longer. For several years ne
was superintendent Of schools for
FraCkln county. In 1850 and 1851 Mr..
Wheele" represented Franklin county in
the New York House of Assembly; was
member of the Senate of New York in
1855 and 1853, and president pro TEN. of
that body. He was a member and the
president of the New York Constitutional
convention in lS67-GS; Wss elected q
representative in Congress to the Thirty
seventh, Forty first, Forty second, Fo4 ty-
third and Forty fourth Congresses, and
in June, 1876, WAS unanimously nomi-
mated for the presidency of the
United States by the Republican natiogal
convention at Cincinnati. For several
years he was much engaged in banking
and railroad affairs. He was enc of the
organizers of the bank Of Malone, and
held the position of cashier and chief
managing director. lie was trustee of
the Northern New York Railway Com
paGy. In the political complications
which arose in Louisiana during the ses-
sion of the Forty-Third Congress, Mr..
Wheeler was conspicuous, he having been
chairman of the special committee of the
House OF Rep esentatives that visited
Louisiana and tioally adjusted the difficult
lies existing there on the basis Of what
is known as "The Wheeler compromise"
He was elected President of the
United States March ,, 1877.
AQUIEr DEATH.
MALONE, n. Y, June 4-The death of
eX-Eice- President Wheeler, which &C.
Cured at 1910 O'Clock this morning, Was
painless and life went out so gradually
and quietly that it was hard to mark the
exact moment of its fight. Mr., Wheeler,
whose vitality hss been diminishing |
slowly through the past six years, re-
tanned his usual vigor up to perhaps six |
months ago. de was tortured terribly by |
insomnia and neuralgia, and was also |
afflicted with caterrh of the bladder. On |
the night of March ,, LAST, he WIS seized |
with chill, followed by g sinking spell |
and then by fever, and for hours his |
physicians thought him dying. He never |
fully rallied from that attack, and mind !
and body wasted away together. The /
probability is it has been softening of the
Drain, and for weeks he was Irrational.
This brain affection was the immediate
cause of death. Monday last he sank into
a condition of Inconsistencies from
which ne was never fully aroused, except
for moment or two. Since Wednesday
he had not spoken nor given
any sigL of recognition of his friends or
what was going on around him. He had
no Near relative in the world TO minister
10 him during his illness or watch by his
death bed. a number of his deceased
Yife's relatives and friends were grouped
sEpund his bed side when the sad hour
acSna